An Introduction to Cooking with Beer

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Cooking With Beer - Tips and Tricks


As a homebrewer I must confess that more food has would up in my beer recipes than beer in my food recipes. That's curious as I love to cook as much as I love to brew but somehow it rarely occurs to me to slosh a little beer into my concoctions. That's not to say that I've never done, I just don't do it as much as I should.

It just makes sense to cook with beer. Beer has more in common with a lot of the food that we eat than does that other popular cooking beverage, wine. It contains grain (barley), herbs (hops), water and yeast. Adding beer to a recipe can really change the character of the dish. It can enhance particular ingredients, help blend the flavors of the dish, or just add that little zing that your meal might be lacking.